Anon Hsv 46VII
Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 389.
text and translation
Einskis biðja samir þér annan þess,
er gengr af réttri rifi;
ósvinnr maðr biðr þess iðugliga,
er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.
Samir þér biðja annan einskis þess, er gengr af réttri rifi; ósvinnr maðr biðr iðugliga þess, er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.
‘It befits you to ask another for nothing which departs from right reason; an unwise man frequently asks for that which he does not need to have.’
notes and context
Lat. parallel: (Dist. I, 31) Quod iustum est petito vel quod videatur honestum, / nam stultum petere est quod possit iure negari ‘Ask for what is right or what seems proper, for it is foolish to ask for that which may rightly be denied’. The question of whom to ask for what and to be decent in one’s pleas is also dealt with in Hávm and Sól. Cf. Sól 28. — [1-3]: The text in 624 departs from the Lat.: Einskis biðja | skaltu annan þess | er þú eigi þarft ‘You must ask another for nothing which you do not need’.
readings
- [1] Einskis: so 723aˣ, 401ˣ, 624, einski 1199ˣ
- [2] samir þér: þér samir vel 401ˣ, skaltu 624
- [3] gengr af réttri rifi: er gengr af restu rifi 723aˣ, ‘ei geingr af re[...]rife’ 401ˣ, þú eigi þarft 624
- [4] ósvinnr: ósnotr 624
- [5] iðugliga: optliga 401ˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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Lbs 1199 4°x (1199x) — 73r/12 - 73r/13
imageseinski biðja
samir þér annan þess,
er gengr af réttri rifi;
ósvinnr maðr
biðr þess iðugliga,
er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.Einski bidia somir þier annan þess er geingur af riettu ʀi | fe. Osuinnur madur bidur þess ýduglega er hann þarf. huorgi ad hafa.
(VEÞ)
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AM 723 a 4°x (723ax) — 80/8 - 80/10
imagesEinskis biðja
samir þér annan þess,
er er gengr af restu rifi ;
ósvinnr maðr
biðr þess iðugliga,
er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.Einskis bidia sæmer þier þad/ess, er gengur af restu rife, ösvinnur madur bjdur þess jduglega sem hann | þarf hverge ad hafa.
(TW)
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JS 401 4°x (401x) — 1v/9 - 1v/10
Einskis biðja
þér samir vel annan þess,
er †ei geingr af re[...]rife† ;
ósvinnr maðr
biðr þess optliga,
er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.Einskiz bidia þier samer vel annann þess er ei geingr af re[2] | [...]rife osvinr madr bidr þess optlega er hann þarf hvergi at hafa |
(VEÞ)
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AM 148 8vox (148x*) — 244v/5 - 244v/6 [4-6]
ösvinnur | bidur þess Jduglega er hverge þarff hoskur. |
(VEÞ)
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AM 624 4° (624) — 142/26 - 142/27
imagesEinskis biðja
skaltu annan þess,
er þú eigi þarft ;
ósnotr maðr
biðr þess iðugliga,
er hann þarf hvergi at hafa.einskis bidia skaltv annann | þess er þv eigi þarft osnotur madur bidr þess idiuliga er hann þarf huergi at hafa ·
(VEÞ)
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AM 148 8vox (148x*) — 71v/2 - 71v/4
Einskis skaltu bidia | Annan þess, er þu ei þarfft, ösnotur madur bidur þess Jduglega, | er hann þarf huorge ad hafa.
(VEÞ)
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], [C. E/5]. Hugsvinnsmál 46: AII, 178, BII, 193, Skald II, 101, NN §2589; Hallgrímur Scheving 1831, 14, Konráð Gíslason 1860, 550, Gering 1907, 13, Tuvestrand 1977, 96, Hermann Pálsson 1985, 58.
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